ios_interface - Manage Interface on Cisco IOS network devices
New in version 2.4.
Synopsis
- This module provides declarative management of Interfaces on Cisco IOS network devices.
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | |
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aggregate | List of Interfaces definitions. | ||
auth_pass | Default: none | Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli and become: yes with become_pass .For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide. Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead. | |
authorize |
| Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli and become: yes .For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide. Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead. | |
delay | Default: 10 | Time in seconds to wait before checking for the operational state on remote device. This wait is applicable for operational state argument which are state with values up /down , tx_rate and rx_rate. | |
description | Description of Interface. | ||
duplex |
| Interface link status | |
enabled | Interface link status. | ||
mtu | Maximum size of transmit packet. | ||
name required | Name of the Interface. | ||
neighbors | Check the operational state of given interface name for CDP/LLDP neighbor.The following suboptions are available. | ||
host | CDP/LLDP neighbor host for given interface name . | ||
port | CDP/LLDP neighbor port to which given interface name is connected. | ||
provider | Default: None | Deprecated Starting with Ansible 2.5 we recommend using connection: network_cli .For more information please see the IOS Platform Options guide. A dict object containing connection details. | |
username | Configures the username to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_USERNAME will be used instead. | ||
authorize |
| Instructs the module to enter privileged mode on the remote device before sending any commands. If not specified, the device will attempt to execute all commands in non-privileged mode. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTHORIZE will be used instead. | |
ssh_keyfile | Specifies the SSH key to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is the path to the key used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_SSH_KEYFILE will be used instead. | ||
auth_pass | Default: none | Specifies the password to use if required to enter privileged mode on the remote device. If authorize is false, then this argument does nothing. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_AUTH_PASS will be used instead. | |
host required | Specifies the DNS host name or address for connecting to the remote device over the specified transport. The value of host is used as the destination address for the transport. | ||
timeout | Default: 10 | Specifies the timeout in seconds for communicating with the network device for either connecting or sending commands. If the timeout is exceeded before the operation is completed, the module will error. | |
password | Default: None | Specifies the password to use to authenticate the connection to the remote device. This value is used to authenticate the SSH session. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable ANSIBLE_NET_PASSWORD will be used instead. | |
port | Default: 22 | Specifies the port to use when building the connection to the remote device. | |
rx_rate | Receiver rate in bits per second (bps). This is state check parameter only. Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules
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speed | Interface link speed. | ||
state |
| State of the Interface configuration, up means present and operationally up and down means present and operationally down
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tx_rate | Transmit rate in bits per second (bps). This is state check parameter only. Supports conditionals, see Conditionals in Networking Modules
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Notes
Note
- Tested against IOS 15.6
- For more information on using Ansible to manage network devices see the Ansible Network Guide
- For more information on using Ansible to manage Cisco devices see the Cisco integration page.
Examples
- name: configure interface ios_interface: name: GigabitEthernet0/2 description: test-interface speed: 100 duplex: half mtu: 512 - name: remove interface ios_interface: name: Loopback9 state: absent - name: make interface up ios_interface: name: GigabitEthernet0/2 enabled: True - name: make interface down ios_interface: name: GigabitEthernet0/2 enabled: False - name: Check intent arguments ios_interface: name: GigabitEthernet0/2 state: up tx_rate: ge(0) rx_rate: le(0) - name: Check neighbors intent arguments ios_interface: name: Gi0/0 neighbors: - port: eth0 host: netdev - name: Config + intent ios_interface: name: GigabitEthernet0/2 enabled: False state: down - name: Add interface using aggregate ios_interface: aggregate: - { name: GigabitEthernet0/1, mtu: 256, description: test-interface-1 } - { name: GigabitEthernet0/2, mtu: 516, description: test-interface-2 } duplex: full speed: 100 state: present - name: Delete interface using aggregate ios_interface: aggregate: - name: Loopback9 - name: Loopback10 state: absent
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
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commands list | always, except for the platforms that use Netconf transport to manage the device. | The list of configuration mode commands to send to the device. Sample: ['interface GigabitEthernet0/2', 'description test-interface', 'duplex half', 'mtu 512'] |
Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
Support
For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article
Author
- Ganesh Nalawade (@ganeshrn)
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